Fwd: [bangla-vision] Fw: Kathy Kelly to Board Flotilla to Gaza, News and Chicago Emergency Repsponse Plan

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--- On Wed, 6/22/11, Voices for Creative Nonviolence <info@vcnv.org> wrote: Use this area to offer a short teaser of your email's content. Text here will show in the preview area of some email clients. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Kathy Kelly Among World Peace Activists to Board the Freedom Flotilla II: Stay Human Learn how to support the flotilla in the event of an attack. Chicago Emergency Response Network calls for a massive picket line and rally at the Israeli Consulate (111 E. Wacker Drive--just east of Wacker Drive & Michigan Avenue) beginning at 5:00 PM the day following any military action against the flotilla. If the Israeli military attacks or boards any ship in the Freedom Flotilla II, we will activate this plan. Updates from the US Boat to Gaza feed will be here:  http://twitter.com/#!/USBOATTOGAZA   Updates on all of the ships in the flotilla will be here: http://witnessgaza.com/ You can also see all the news people are posting about the flotilla using the #flotilla hashtag:  http://twitter.com/#!/search/flotilla   Freedom Flotilla II Press Release Stay Human This is a rainbow coalition of human rights defenders. It does not only concern Muslims, but everyone, be they Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu, secular or whatever. This is world citizenry united, Our destination is Gaza. Our means are non-violent. Our goal is to lift the illegal siege, completely and permanently and freedom for the Palestinian people . Read more For Gaza But Not Against Isreal by Esther Cepeda / Chicago Sun-Times June 20, 2011 In a few days, slightly more than a year since a flotilla of ships attempted to breech Israel's naval blockade to call attention to the plight of the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, 50 passengers, including three from the Chicago area, will sail to the Gaza Strip on a boat named "The Audacity of Hope." As part of the second international "freedom flotilla," they'll attempt the same feat to deliver humanitarian aid in the form of letters of support and friendship. Read More Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Richard Levy & Kathy Kelly Join US Peace Activists to Sail to Gaza In Humanitarian Flotilla Democracy Now "Don't Look Away—The Siege of Gaza Must End" by Kathy Kelly / Co-coordinator Voices for Creative Nonviolence June 16, 2011 In Late June 2011, I'm going to be a passenger on "The Audacity of Hope," the USA boat in this summer's international flotilla to break the illegal and deadly Israeli siege of Gaza. Organizers, supporters and passengers aim to nonviolently end the brutal collective punishment imposed on Gazan residents since 2006 when the Israeli government began a stringent air, naval and land blockade of the Gaza Strip explicitly to punish Gaza's residents for choosing the Hamas government in a democratic election. Both the Hamas and the Israeli governments have indiscriminately killed civilians in repeated attacks, but the vast preponderance of these outrages over the length of the conflict have been inflicted by Israeli soldiers and settlers on unarmed Palestinians. I was witness to one such attack when last in Gaza two years ago, under heavy Israeli bombardment in a civilian neighborhood in Rafah. Read more  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2011 Voices for Creative Nonviolence, All rights reserved. You are receiving our newsletter because you either signed up at vcnv.org or signed up at one of our events. Our mailing address is: Voices for Creative Nonviolence 1249 W Argyle Street Chicago, IL 60640

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